The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1887-06-25
saturday, June a5, 1887.

-Arbuckles and Coverings coilecs %
cents pound at Bartons
Miss Annie Lincoln of Wilmington
is visiting Mrs M. Il. Barton.
Miss Edna Henry of st. Louis, Mo-,
is visiting Mrs. W. +. Griffith.
-"Give me winter" and when winter
comes, il is "Givc me summer"
The hardest job some people have
this hot weather is to keep cool.
1t is remarkable how many young
folks eat ice-cieam in the dark.
The small boy is now having little
Fourth of July firing iirc-crackers.
F. NJ. c. Choate still has the best line
of Spectacles and Eyeglasses in the State.
Mrs. Blanche Kinerly of Philadel-
phia is visiting Mrs. Stephen X. Choate.
VIM. Campbell and wife of Wash
ington, are visiting his parents in this
town.
1t is probable that all the wheat and
some oats will he harvested before July
Fourth.
I Mr. and Mrs. Chas. $. Horn and
family, of Wilmington, visited Newark
\ this week
Mrs. Bond and daughter of Philadel-
phia, are visiting the Rev. q. NJ. Bond at
the West End.
\-lt will be to the general advantage of
the readers of this sheet to read carefully
the advertisements.
C W. Horn, prominent carriage
manufacturer of Wilmington, was in
Newark Tuesday.
Now the boys hie away to the placid
waters of the creek and there lave and
cool the heated blood.
--Stansbury J. Wiley, ESD of Will
mington, visited his mother in this town
on Sunday last at the West End.
Balloon ascension for Fourth of
July. Fire works, any quantity, at the
lowest prices, at +. NJ. G Choate's.
Frank Kershaw, son of the Rev. VIM.
Kershaw, who resides near Baldwins'
mill, started for the West this week.
"A full line of fire works which will
be sold cheap at G c. Choate's, also a fine
lot of cigars and tobacco just received.
!. Dobson always has ice for sale.
Wagon goes out during the day, and all
orders left will be promptly attended to.
Two platforms have been erected at
the station of the b. d 0. Railroad at
this town. The double track Will soon
\ he in use.
After trying them all we think
Moore's Windsor Hotel the best $500
per day house in Philadelphia. l223-25-
q Hilbert street.
Snake stories are in order. We have
one but we are so afraid that some of our
readers will not take it as correct, we
leave it out until next issue.
The b. Il O. Railroad have leveled
off the ground lying north of the new
warehouse and placed bridge over the
gutter beside the public road.
= On July Fourth the Good Templars of
Newark will hold picnic in Donnell's
woods near this town. Other Lodges
are invited also the public to attend.
Y Fred Choate will begin tearing down
his old news-store, and in view of build
ing new one, will sell goods remarkably
cheap. lie asks that you give him Il call.
X All the schools are closed for the
simmer. The teacher as well us the
student, are now rusticating or in other
words are resting after many months
labor.
Z The weather has been too hot this
week for people to work, except news
paper men. Never too hot for them.
They make it hot for other people at
times.
VIM. S. Mote, a farmer south Of town,
seems to lead all others in the way of
early corn. On the 18th of June his
corn was in tasse. This would seem
hard to beat.
A colt belonging to VIM. II. Bowen,
living near Elkton, ran against wire
fence, and was terribly lacerated. 1t was
thought at one time the filly would have
to be killed
If the town officials at Elkton would
take II walk about the lots enclosed north
of the railroad, they would find the road
in pitible condition. Last week it was
hardly passabe.
Daniel Miller lost a valuable young
horse this week. We understand dog
got after the horse when it ran against Il
worm fence, one of the stakes running
into its side, causing lock-iaw.
What weather for ice cream? Mrs. 5.
A. Roach desires to inform her many
friends that she has ice cream of all
ilavors She would be pleased to have
you give her saloon visit.
Conductor Godshall, who met with
Railroad one day last week, is all right
again. He made II remarkable escape.
Conductor Osmond is recovering gradual
ly from an accident ON the same road.
The special advertisement" column
is becoming very popular among our
business men. Like stage coach or
street car, there is always room for one
more. The advertiser has to pay so lit
tie money and receives so much return,
that he is perfectly happy.
-Sunday's storm in this vicinity was